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He also tweeted: 'BOOK FACT: If you rip out a book page, hold it up to the light and look carefully, you'll see that you're a monster. Stop defacing the books.'

Jonathan O'Brien, who now works for Innocent Drinks, had been in charge of manning the Waterstones Oxford Street twitter account - which he did in such a hilarious way the account gained a cult following of thousands

Victoria became aware of the funny feed and developed a crush on the anonymous man behind the silly tweets.

'It was genuinely the tone of his tweets which popped into my timeline, I loved how much of a world he had created with the account and how the bookstore reacted to topical stories,' she told FEMAIL.

'My friends Gemma and Steve dared me to ask "the Waterstones guy" out and the pair of them flew from Canada to be at the wedding so they're pretty pleased with themselves.

'They've already worked out who they wanted to play them in the movie!

'It was genuinely the tone of his tweets which popped into my timeline, I loved how much of a world he had created with the account and how the bookstore reacted to topical stories,' she told FEMAIL

'We thought we'd go on a few dates then I'd go back out on tour and that would be it but we just didn't stop talking even when I was in Australia for a month!'

'I think I knew pretty early on that this was going somewhere. Everything was so easy, we were both changing our careers and we were so supportive of each other'

'Our first date was to a secret cocktail bar in London that we only now go to on our anniversary! It's a bit of a pain keeping to that as they do really good drinks.'

'We still can't believe we've ended up married,' Victoria added.

'We thought we'd go on a few dates then I'd go back out on tour and that would be it but we just didn't stop talking even when I was in Australia for a month!

'I think I knew pretty early on that this was going somewhere. Everything was so easy, we were both changing our careers and we were so supportive of each other.'

Victoria's tweet received over 24,000 likes and hundreds of supportive comments - with someone even asking her who she'd like to play her in a film version of the romance

'My friends Gemma and Steve dared me to ask "the Waterstones guy" out and the pair of them flew from Canada to be at the wedding so they're pretty pleased with themselves,' she said

Jonathan sent his last tweet from the Waterstones account on September 15, 2015 - and now works for Innocent Drinks.

It read: 'That really is the end. From me, anyway. I have LOVED writing this Twitter account. Huge thanks to all... goodnight.'

On Sunday evening, Victoria delighted her Twitter followers by tweeting the famous line from Jane Eyre, 'Reader, I married him', along with a photo taken of her and Jonathan at their wedding and her original message in 2012 declaring her love for her now-husband.

The post has been liked more than 27,000 times as their story has swept the internet.

It all began when Victoria tweeted at the Twitter account run by her future husband Jonathan O'Brien

Victoria became aware of the funny twitter account and developed a crush on the anonymous man behind the silly tweets

She updated her followers on Twitter on the course of their relationship

Victoria's tweet received over 24,000 likes and hundreds of supportive comments.